Top 100 Every Age Quotes
#2. Survivors of atrocity of every age and every culture come to a point in their testimony where all questions are reduced to one, spoken more in bewilderment than in outrage: Why? The answer is beyond human understanding.
Judith Lewis Herman
#3. Ingenious to their ruin, every age improves the art and instruments of rage.
Edmund Waller
#4. [T]hat's the way of torturers of every age, to put the blame on the victim, especially when he strikes back.
Orson Scott Card
#5. Unfortunately, there are mental invalids of every age who exist on other people's terms. It's lazy for older persons to let others make up their minds for them. People have to overcome that.
Marian Seldes
#7. It is folly for an eminent man to think of escaping censure, and a weakness to be affected with it. All the illustrious persons of antiquity, and indeed of every age in the world, have passed through this fiery persecution.
Joseph Addison
#8. There are in every age new errors to be rectified and new prejudices to be opposed.
Samuel Johnson
#9. Time was a dazzling lie, a magician worth a bird in his hat. The truth, I felt certain, was that everything happened at once. How old was I? I was every age at the same time. All the days of our lives were today.
Ramona Ausubel
#10. Not every age is fit for childish sports.
Plautus
#11. Every age had its losses, they said, even youth, which lost first childhood, then youth too. And all first things were vivid, including losses. "Just keep learning," the old woman said.
Kim Stanley Robinson
#12. Human life has dignity at every age the taking of innocent human life is always wrong. I believe our nation at every level of government must reject any scheme to permit or promote assisted suicide and euthanasia.
Gary Bauer
#13. Every age is blind to its own worst madness.
Allan Bloom
#14. In every age poets and social reformers have tried to stimulate the people of their own time to a nobler life by enchanting stories of the virtues of the heroes of old.
Alfred Marshall
#15. Of all men only those who find time for philosophy are at leisure, only they are truly alive; for it is not only their own lifetime they guard well; they add every age to their own; all the years that have passed before them they requisition for their store.
Seneca.
#16. I don't know if there's a method that I'd like to see younger people bring back, I just want to see everyone of every age in the kitchen.
Dorie Greenspan
#17. The gospel is capable and designed to strike home in every culture, in every age, and in every language.
Scot McKnight
#18. Improvisation and new learning are not private processes; they are shared with others at every age. We are called to join in a dance whose steps must be learned along the way, so it is important to attend and respond. Even in uncertainty, we are responsible for our steps.
Mary Catherine Bateson
#19. I think every age lives in a blend of technology so there's always older ones mixed in with newer ones, and when the new technology goes down, the immediate fallback position is either that technology just before that or one several technologies back.
Margaret Atwood
#20. In every age, art holds up to us the standard pattern of exemplary conduct, and real life does its best to conform.
Dorothy L. Sayers
#21. Enough if every age produce two or three critics of this esoteric class, with here and there a reader to understand them.
Thomas De Quincey
#24. We have untold stacks of recorded music from every age and culture, and the most superb means of playing it. But who actually listens? Maybe a few pot-smokers.
Alan W. Watts
#25. One of the things that was a blessing for me is my parents were music lovers. Neither of my parents played an instrument, but they were avid record buyers. And I grew up at every age listening to all kinds of music.
Gustavo Santaolalla
#26. The Bhagavad-Gita is a true scripture of the human race a living creation rather than a book, with a new message for every age and a new meaning for every civilization.
Sri Aurobindo
#27. People sometimes announce that we have entered 'the information age' as if information did not exist in other times. I think that every age was an age of information, each in its own way and according to the available media.
Robert Darnton
#28. Every age must look for its sanction to its poetry and philosophy, for in these the human mind, as it looks backward or forward, attains to an eternal state.
James Joyce
#29. Every age has its problem, by solving which humanity is helped forward.
Heinrich Heine
#30. In every country and in every age, the priest has been hostile to liberty. He is always in alliance with the despot, abetting his abuses in return for protection to his own.
Thomas Jefferson
#31. In every age there has been a stream of popular opinion that has carried all before it, and given a family character, as it were, to the century.
Mary Wollstonecraft
#32. I wanted to explore cancer not just biologically, but metaphorically. The idea that tuberculosis in the 19th century possessed the same kind of frightening and decaying quality was very interesting to me, and it seemed that one could explore the idea that every age defined its own illness.
Siddhartha Mukherjee
#33. According to the faith and mercy of his Christian enemies, [Chosroes] sunk without hope into a still deeper abyss [Hell]; and it will not be denied, that tyrants of every age and sect are the best entitled to such infernal abodes.
Edward Gibbon
#34. History has shown that in every age and in every field of human knowledge, many of the views which almost everyone accepted as true and never bothered to think about further, were in time proven completely wrong.
Philip Arthur Fisher
#35. In every age and clime we see Two of a trade can never agree.
John Gay
#36. Genius is present in every age, but the men carrying it within them remain benumbed unless extraordinary events occur to heat up and melt the mass so that it flows forth.
Denis Diderot
#37. You will not find a treatise that is too learned for me; without laying claim to any genuine learning, I yet accustomed myself from childhood onwards to grasp the spirit of the best and wisest in every age. Shame on the artist who does not consider it his duty to achieve at least so much.
Ludwig Van Beethoven
#38. The will of the nation is one of those expressions which have been most profusely abused by the wily and the despotic of every age.
Alexis De Tocqueville
#39. The extraction of deep wisdom can be done at any age, and if we are to love the time of our life, it must be. Imbedded within us is the deeper story we came to live, and the core issue at every age for any awakened human being is the extent to which we are living that story in the present moment.
Carolyn Baker
#40. He must have had this Wall Street gentry in mind, or at least their prototypes, for in every age it has been the tyrant, the oppressor and the exploiter who has wrapped himself in the cloak of patriotism, or religion, or both to deceive and overawe the people.
Eugene V. Debs
#41. Like every thoughtful parent in every age of history, Neil consoled himself, My generation failed, but this new one is going to change the entire world, and go piously to the polls even on rainy election-days, and never drink more than one cocktail, and end all war.
Sinclair Lewis
#42. But probably every age gets, within certain limits, the science it deserves.
C.S. Lewis
#43. In every age there comes a time when a leader must come forward to meet the needs of the hour. Therefore, there is no potential leader who does not have the opportunity to make a positive difference in society.
Winston S. Churchill
#44. Every age can be enchanting, provided you live within it.
Brigitte Bardot
#45. Every age thinks it's the modern age, but this one really is. Electricity is going to change everything. Everything!
Tom Stoppard
#46. Because the Bible is God's Word, it has eternal relevance; it speaks to all humankind, in every age and in every culture.
Gordon D. Fee
#47. The problem of corrupt clergy haunts God's family in every age. Priests who misuse and abuse their authority inflict untold damage upon the people of God.
Scott Hahn
#48. Every age might perhaps produce one or two geniuses, if they were not sunk under the censure and obloquy of plodding, servile, imitating pedants.
Jonathan Swift
#50. Every one of course represents the spirit of his age, but there is an eternal aspect of the Spirit of every age which may be caught. To recreate the past from the mutilated fragments of the present is the task of the Historian.
Oscar Wilde
#51. The age of credulity is every age the world has ever known. Men have always turned from the ascertained, which is limited and discouraging, to the dubious, which is unlimited and full of hope for everybody.
Agnes Repplier
#52. Libraries collect the works of genius of every language and every age.
George Bancroft
#53. As a character in Tom Stoppard's The Invention of Love, set in 1876, remarks, "Every age thinks it's the modern age, but this one really is.
Tim Wu
#54. Not every age allows its sons to reap the results which remain great for all time, and ... not every century is fitted to make the men who live in it distinguished and happy.
Gustav Freytag
#55. The anti-apartheid prisoners on the island, like so many in every age and nation, found that Shakespeare had a peculiar ability to gentle their condition. They used to gather clandestinely to read the plays; on one occasion, the book was passed around for each man to mark his favourite lines.
Daniel Hannan
#56. Every age probably regards itself as unique in its sexual sophistication, and if we take Ovid as a typical spokesman we should have to conclude that the keynote of his age was elegance ... Ovid could not possibly have taken himself, nor be taken for, an Ancient.
Rolfe Humphries
#57. Every age has found some alternative to American values appealing. The number of Western intellectuals enamored of fascism and all the various expressions of Marxism was legion.
Dennis Prager
#58. Ever since the first caveman discovered fire and decided that the ones still living in darkness were benighted, it's been civilization against barbarism . . . with every age having its own barbarians. Nothing
Viet Thanh Nguyen
#59. In every age its (liberty's) progress has been beset by its natural enemies, by ignorance and superstition, by lust of conquest and by love of ease, by the strong man's craving for power, and the poor man's craving for food
Lord Acton
#60. I think every age has a medium that talks to it more eloquently than the others. In the 19th century it was symphonic music and the novel. For various technical and artistic reasons, film became that eloquent medium for the 20th century.
Walter Murch
#61. According to Scripture, the invisible church includes everyone who has ever been genuinely born again for every age of church history. This church will not meet in a visible way until Christ returns. The visible church consists of believers who are alive and meeting together right now.
Wayne Mack
#62. In spite of every sage whom Greece can show, Unerring wisdom never dwelt below; Folly in all of every age we see, The only difference lies in the degree.
Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux
#63. Every age has a keyhole to which its eye is pasted.
Mary McCarthy
#64. In every age there are plenty of people around to remind you what you cannot possibly do. Thank goodness, for these naysayers provide a priceless service: They spur ... us to achieve great things.
Jerry Spinelli
#65. All for ourselves, and nothing for other people, seems, in every age of the world, to have been the vile maxim of the masters of mankind.
Adam Smith
#66. I can't accept "our nervous age," since mankind has been nervous during every age. Whoever fears nervousness should turn into a sturgeon or smelt; if a sturgeon makes a stupid mistake, it can only be one: to end up on a hook, and then in a pan in a pastry shell.
Anton Chekhov
#68. Every age but ours has had its model, its ideal. All of these have been given up by our culture; the saint, the hero, the gentleman, the knight, the mystic. About all we have left is the well-adjusted man without problems, a very pale and doubtful substitute.
Abraham H. Maslow
#69. Few things contain and impact the immediacy of cultural impress so evocatively as books, and not only through their ideas. A book is an artifact, and every age establishes upon the basic functional structure its own particular stamp.
William Everson
#70. Every age has its peculiar folly: Some scheme, project, or fantasy into which it plunges, spurred on by the love of gain, the necessity of excitement, or the force of imitation.
Charles Mackay
#71. Men must be able to engage in business and go to war, but leisure and peace are better; they must do what is necessary and indeed what is useful, but what is honorable is better. On such principles children and persons of every age which requires education should be trained.
Aristotle.
#72. Every age cuts and pastes history to suit its own purposes; art always has an ax to grind.
Ada Louise Huxtable
#73. There are so many opportunities where people are thirsting: young people who are preparing for Confirmation, young adults who are searching, people of every age. There's a great thirst, I think, of people to come to understand and to belong to the Church of Christ.
Joseph Edward Kurtz
#74. Intolerance has been the curse of every age and state.
Simon Davies
#75. Every age has its massive moral blind spots. We might not see them, but our children will.
Bono
#76. Outwardly I am 83, but inwardly I am every age, with the emotions and experience of each period.
Elizabeth Jane Coatsworth
#77. It is by no haphazard chance that in every age men have risen early to pray. The first thing that marks decline in spiritual life is our relationship to the early morning.
Oswald Chambers
#78. Every age develops its own peculiar forms of pathology, which express in exaggerated form its underlying character structure.
Christopher Lasch
#79. There have existed,
in every age and every country,
two distinct orders of men
the lovers of freedom and
the devoted advocates of power.
Robert Y. Hayne
#80. Since nature allows us to enter into a partnership with every age, why not turn from this brief and transient spell of time and give ourselves wholeheartedly to the past, which is limitless and eternal and can be shared with better men than we?
Seneca.
#82. It could be argued that every age gets the comfort savagery writer it deserves.
Will Self
#83. In every age in which books have been produced, the governing class, the respectable, have been opposed to the works of real genius.
Robert Green Ingersoll
#84. Of all people only those are at leisure who make time for philosophy, only those are really alive. For they not only keep a good watch over their own lifetimes, but they annex every age to theirs.
Seneca.
#85. My theory is that, as with our children, as with every surface of that geodesic dome inside the 8-Ball, every age we've ever been is who we are.
Anne Lamott
#86. Why should society feel responsible only for the education of children, and not for the education of all adults of every age?
Erich Fromm
#87. Every fact and every work exercises a fresh persuasion over every age and every new species of man. History always enunciates new truths.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#88. Every age and generation must be as free to act for itself in all cases as the age and generations which preceded it. The vanity and presumption of governing beyond the grave is the most ridiculous and insolent of all tyrannies. Man has no property in man;
Thomas Paine
#89. In every age of transition men are never so firmly bound to one way of life as when they are about to abandon it.
Bernard Levin
#90. Lyrical poetry is much the same an every age, as the songs of the nightingales in every spring-time.
Heinrich Heine
#91. Every age that has historical status is governed by aristocracies.Aristocracy with the meaning - the best are ruling.Peoples do never govern themselves. That lunacy was concocted by liberalism. Behind its people's sovereignty the slyest cheaters are hiding, who don't want to be recognized.
Joseph Goebbels
#92. I do believe that in every age there are people whose consciousness transcends their own time and that these people, whether fictional or historical, are those with whom we most closely identify and those about whom we most enjoy reading.
Erica Jong
#93. Photography is the mirror, more faithful than any actual mirror, in which we witness at every age, our own aging. The actual mirror accompanies us through time, thoughtfully and treacherously; it changes with us, so that we appear not to change.
Christian Metz
#94. The good men of every age are those who go to the roots of the old thoughts and bear fruit with them.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#95. In every age someone, looking at Fedora as it was, imagined a way of making it the ideal city, but while he constructed his miniature model, Fedora was already no longer the same as before, and what had been until yesterday a possible future became only a toy in a glass globe.
Italo Calvino
#96. But there have been human hearts, constituted just like ours, for six thousand years. The same stars rise and set upon this globe that rose upon the plains of Shinar or along the Egyptian Nile and the same sorrows rise and set in every age.
Henry Ward Beecher
#97. A. D. 1560, pope Pius the Fourth, ordered all the protestants to be severely persecuted throughout the Italian states, when great numbers of every age, sex, and condition, suffered martyrdom.
John Foxe
#98. All historical writing, even the most honest, is unconsciously subjective, since every age is bound, in spite of itself, to make the dead perform whatever tricks it finds necessary for its own peace of mind.
Carl Lotus Becker
#99. For every age there is a popular idea about what madness is, what causes it, and how a mad person should look and behave; and it's usually these popular ideas, rather than those of medical professionals, that turn up in songs and stories and plays and books.
Margaret Atwood
#100. I believe in the possibility of positive change at every age and every stage of life. Your whole life is ahead of you.
Eleanor Brownn
